Python y mi cambio de sexo

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all right well let's go ahead and get started so uh Naomi suitor is has it been a long long time contributed to the Python community she created the pike on poster session she created the pike on education summit she has taught people had a program in

Python in a variety of context and she speaks in vlogs both about Python and her experiences with gender transition in the tech community and she is going to be talking with us today about farewell and welcome home Python in two genders please welcome to Amy

cedar so oh my god okay uh so I want to start with a disclaimer um basically what I'm going to be talking about is based on my experiences and my observations there are kind of two reasons for this one of them is maybe a little bit of a weasel in that

you can't call BS on this this is my life the other thing is that I want to make it clear that I cannot speak for all transgender people I cannot speak for all transwomen I cannot speak for all white late middle age trans women from the Chicago area I

can really only speak for myself this is an important point because marginalized groups people tend to assume that one of them represents all of them and that's just not true so this is in fact a very difficult talk for me to give and it's very weird

for me to be in this situation I have been teaching and speaking for decades normally the back of an envelope and five minutes and I'm good to talk for hours ask my former students um so this in fact I've told my story a few times now and it gets harder

every time and I think part of that is that in spite of the disclaimer i just gave you i'm afraid that people think i am speaking for a lot of other people and i'm really scared to screwing it up the other thing though is this quote from Luverne cox

Laverne is a transgender actress who stars on orange is the new black the Netflix series she is also quickly becoming one of the leading spokespeople for the transgender community this is both the reason why I'm scared and this is the mantra that I've

been clinging to in order to go through with this it is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist so this is in fact my revolutionary act and part of my story is in fact the story of the

world telling all of my life that I should not that I cannot exist so to start a long time ago and some of my friends have made fun of me starting back this far uh i was born in a small town in Nebraska and the country doctor declared with great confidence

it's a boy unfortunately he was wrong in fact I was transgender and what this means if you're not familiar with it is that sometime before I was born something very essential in the way that my brain works was set to female rather than male I try to

stay up to date on the literature and things like that but in fact there is no clear explanation of this at this point there are clearly genetic factors there are also clearly epigenetic factors timings of hormones various things but we don't know what

causes it there are probably multiple causes and in a very important way it doesn't matter what matters is that I never chose to be transgender I never chose to be born with a male body and a female brain mind whatever it is I always just was now as you

might imagine even now at this is a hard thing in those days in that time this left me fairly confused I knew that things weren't right I also learned very quickly through fairly pervasive gender policing that I could never be a girl or with the girls

or like the girls not like that but I learned very very quickly and and I'm talking about by like four or five that I could never even talk about it never never no one can know this so you can imagine I was fairly confused until eventually you know when

puberty hit this became a very urgent issue and at about that time our family got Look magazine this was in January of 1970 which shows you how freaking old I and here with steve mcqueen's macho face smeared across the cover with an appeal to the president

this would be Richard Milhous Nixon uh to unite the country there was also an article on this new bizarre freaking weird phenomenon transsexuals male or female I read that article and I saw myself and it scared the hell out of me I found that all transsexuals

were deeply troubled people who have to live extraordinarily complicated lives if you read this article closely you will find that they are deeply troubled people because they are almost always unable to get treatment and they live extraordinarily complicated

lives because if they do get treatment they pretty much as a price of getting treatment they have to enter what I call the trans witness protection program that is in that day this was actually part of the medical protocol if you wanted to undergo any sort

of treatment for being transgender you needed to go stealth as we say give up all connections to your former life no one must ever know or something horrible will happen to you this made quite an impression on me as a as a very young teenager in fact it's

interesting when I ran across this article online about nine months ago after four decades I still had whole paragraphs of this committed to memory verbatim so faced with this information I did I made the sort of rational adult decision that any thirteen-year-old